Great Man-Made River

Architecture

The Great Man-Made River is a network of pipes that supplies water to the Sahara Desert in Libya. It is the world’s largest irrigation project. According to its website, it is the largest underground network of pipes (2820 km) and aqueducts in the world. It consists of more than 1,300 wells, most more than 500 m deep, and supplies 6,500,000 m3 of fresh water per day to the cities of Tripoli, Benghazi, Sirt and elsewhere. Muammar al-Gaddafi has described it as the Eighth Wonder of the World.